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Fast Forward BDS Target Ahava Dead Sea Cosmetics Bought by Chinese for $77M
The Israeli cosmetics firm Ahava will be fully acquired by a Chinese investment group for $77 million. The Fosun Group on Sunday night in Jerusalem signed an agreement to purchase the Dead Sea skin care products company, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. Ahava has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement…
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Culture What Ever Became of the ‘Children of Jerusalem’?
Between 1991 and 1996, seven Israeli and Palestinian children starred in a Canadian documentary series about life in Jerusalem. Though they grew up within miles of one another, they lived worlds apart, never to meet. A quarter-century later, I set out to find them. I learned about the obscure series, called “Children of Jerusalem,” from…
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Opinion Conversion Ruling Chips Away at Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s Monopoly on Religion
(JTA) — The Israeli Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling on conversion is a truly historic decision – for Israeli and American Jewry. While the case only concerns a few individuals, the general rules and unequivocal language have wide significance for both Israeli and American Jewry. The ruling represents another blow to the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly…
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Fast Forward Liberal Israeli Paper Urges Barack Obama To Back Palestinian UN Resolution
The liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz has urged Barack Obama to back a Palestinian resolution at the United Nations — and to ignore Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for a veto. The resolution, expeceted to be oonsidered later this month, calls for a resumption of direct talks and a one-year deadline for an agreement on a…
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News Hillary Clinton Backs Israel on Gaza War After Bernie Criticism
Hillary Clinton backed Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza in a television interview Sunday amid a controversy over Democratic rival Bernie Sanders’s claim that it acted “disproportionately” in the campaign. The Democratic frontrunner told CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Jewish state bombed and invaded the Hamas-ruled enclave in self-defense, Politico reported When “your soldiers…
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Fast Forward Israeli Tourist Stabbed in NY Subway Robbery
Abraham Fekete, 55, had dozed off on a bench when, just before 3:30 a.m., he was attacked by an unidentified man, who slashed his neck, arm and hands before running away with his cash, according to police. JP Updates first reported the news. Police said Fekete, dressed in traditional Hasidic clothing, had been traveling from…
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Opinion Hebron Shooting Makes Israel’s Top Brass Look Like Our Republican Party
There’s a uniquely Israeli character to the furor that’s erupted over the so-called shooting soldier — the army medic arrested March 24 after being caught on video shooting a wounded, immobilized Palestinian terrorist in Hebron. The lines seem clear-cut. The military, traditionally Israel’s most admired institution, insists on enforcing its much-touted ethical code. The public…
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Opinion Breaking the Silence Is Wrong — But Columbia Hillel Was Right To Play Host Anyway
After word got out this past week that J Street U would be hosting the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence at the Columbia/Barnard Hillel, the eyes of the Jewish world were drawn to our campus. Debates erupted. Many pro-Israel activists called on us to cancel the event. Hillel was accused of abandoning its pro-Israel principles….
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Opinion Settlers torched a West Bank mosque — and the milquetoast Israeli mainstream response won’t suffice
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